Amazon avails apps on EC2

Amazon is making Oracle CRM and ERP applications available on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, notes Internet.com.

In a blog posting, Amazon says Oracle PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and E-Business Suite applications and databases are now available on EC2 as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

Amazon also plans to add Oracle Siebel CRM at some point, but it's not clear if Oracle's business intelligence software, BI 11g, will be included. The application AMIs is all based on Oracle Linux and run on 64-bit high-memory instances on top of Oracle VM.

EBay's planned merger of its two South Korean units will be delayed further, the company's local unit says without giving a reason, according to Business Week.

The merger of eBay Gmarket and eBay Auction was scheduled to take place on 1 November last year according to a statement. The company didn't give a new date for the merger.

EBay acquired online auctioneer Gmarket for $1.2 billion last year to expand in South Korea, one of the most Internet-connected nations in the world. California-based eBay plans to combine the two local units as it seeks to more than double sales in the country.

Walmart is poised to take a stake in China's fast-growing online retailer 360buy.com, reveals The Guardian.

The retailer is teaming up with other investors to inject $500 million into the e-commerce business, according to reports in daily newspaper China Business News.

Liu Qiangdong, 360buy's founder and chief executive, broke the news on his blog. In a statement, Walmart said it would not comment on "rumour and speculation".